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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Worcester City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Worcester website
48,175 approved · 7,224 refused · 2,248 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 25 Apr 1957 to 4 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Received 3 Dec 199391 COMER ROAD, WORCESTER, WR2 5HY
Received 13 Sept 201719, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 3NF
Received 15 Jun 1973City & County Sales, Castle Street, WR1 3AP
Received 22 Mar 200550 Gilmour Crescent, Worcester WR3 7PJ
Received 8 Jul 201022 Saunders Street, WR3 7ED
Received 21 May 1998PROSPECT COTTAGE, SHERWOOD LANE, WORCESTER WR 2 4NX
Received 22 Jun 196230 Northwick Avenue
Received 8 Sept 200421-24, NEW STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2DP
Received 3 May 197419 Swinton Lane, Worcester WR2 4JP
Received 13 Apr 2010Site Area C Severn Street
Received 17 Jul 2014Former Scala Theatre, Angel Place
Received 10 Feb 199363 St Johns, Worcester, WR2 5AG
Received 9 Dec 2014SANSOME FIELDS HOUSE, SOUTHFIELD STREET, WORCESTER
Received 15 Aug 198015, BRAMLEY AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 2 6DG
Received 18 Jan 1963Archdale 73 Club, Windermere Drive, Worcester
Received 10 Feb 2015Barbourne Health Centre,, Site at the corner of Droitwich Road and Crown Street
Received 5 Jul 2012Kings School Hostel House 5 College Green Worcester
Received 2 Jul 2012Grenville Road, WR2 5RL
Received 29 Apr 201357, KENWOOD AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 4 9BL
Received 3 Jul 198111, BROMYARD TERRACE, WORCESTER WR 2 5BW
Received 20 May 198665 Lowesmoor Worcester WR1 2RS
Received 16 May 201932, THE CROSS, WORCESTER WR 1 3PZ
Received 15 Apr 197734, BEECH AVENUE, WORCESTER WR3 8PY
Received 2 Nov 1979Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Worcester City Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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